April 27, 2011

Bryan Caplan, author of Selfish Reasons to Have More Children, responds to the joke in my review about how I hope that people who like his book have more children and people who prefer watching the Kardashians on reality TV have fewer by asking: "What did stupid people ever do to you?"

Meanwhile celebrity news website What Would Tyler Durden Do was so impressed by Dr. Caplan's presentation of twin and adoption evidence on the crucial question of nature versus nurture, that Brendon applies those genetic insights to what we can learn from Lindsay Lohan's life. (Scroll down to final paragraph.)

It’s kind of sad. Maybe [Lindsay Lohan] could have been more than she is, but she was born to two white trash retards and this is what you get. This is why we need to take away kids' bike helmets and hand them lit fireworks taped to a dodge ball. That stuff used to kill or at least maim all the clumsy, slow witted dumb asses. The rope swing was their natural predator. Now they grow up and have 8 f'n kids all exactly like Lindsay.

Eddie Cibrian and LeAnn Rimes got married Friday night, and while they’re no doubt out somewhere celebrating that fact today, Cibrians ex wife Brandi Glanville unpacked at her new (smaller) house ...

Nonetheless, she’s still the winner in all this because she’s way way hotter than Rimes. Cibrian is an idiot. It’s like he just traded in a 2011 Maybach for the passenger seat from a 98 Accord, and the seat smells like urine and periodically fires a spring into the back of your balls.

I'm sorry, Brendon, that your test ride didn't turn out wholly satisfactory, but I specified in my Craigslist ad, and I quote: "98 Accord, may have certain aesthetic and mechanical issues." So, don't say I didn't warn you. Look, do you want the Accord or not? I'll knock $250 off the asking price, but that's it. Your whining about it on WWTDD won't make me go any lower.

The guy commenting on Lindsay Lohan is just a retard himself. The only ones who care about a walking bad example like her are people pathetic enough to need someone they can feel superior to. Attacking her parents like that is tacky. I'll bet the commentator would never have the guts to attack any underclass non-white person by saying they shouldn't have children by implying they have something genetically wrong with them.Why do I know all about these celebrities I'd rather not know about? It must be through osmosis, the media putting all this before our faces twenty-four hours a day.

'Stupid' is the word for someone who has never seriously posed himself this very question. I know I'm not the only one who saved Kylie's incisive comment a few threads down, but does this ever bear repeating:

'The notion that their hardworking neighbors are paying the taxes that provide the government services to which they think they are entitled is literally one they can't comprehend. The government has the money, the government should provide.'

That, Mr. Caplan, is what stupid people are doing to you.

Is he unfamiliar with the smashing success of Britain's Dysgenic Welfare Breeding Program, put in place in the 1960s (on indigenous English) and whose jaw-droppingeffects have been well-chronicled by Charles Murray?

Any population will have an intelligence bell-curve. Claiming that the relative numbers of people on each side of it doesn't matter to society is pure folly.

the guy who writes WWTDD is obsessed with lindsay lohan. not sure if you were aware, but you should take note. he does at least correctly point out that she enjoys preposterously lenient law enforcement due to her fame, as any normal person would have spent several years in prison by now.

by the way, from the "Where does all this stuff come from? It doesn't just fall out of the sky" files.

developed the teleprompter (perhaps obama should eulogize him?), pioneered satellite television, was an all around inventor and problem solver in the industry and is responsible for lots of stuff that just didn't exist before he created it.

"Hey, It looks like Barry grabbed a few of you nerds by the colar, shoved your faces into the dirt and made you eat a good mouthful of it!"

whoa. HOLY SHIT. barack obama, finally, after 3 years, released a document that is required of absolutely every other candidate way up front in the nomination process.

note how low the the standards are for this obama guy because he is half african. he gets huge credit and props from his fans for doing something that is positively standard and trivial.

next up, kemba walker wows people with his admission that he has actually read one, single book, after 12 years of public school and 3 years of "college". damn, that guy sure is an all-arounder, what an accomplished young man. lol. should have been forced to play in the NBDL like half of these NCAA players.

Brendan's comments on Glanville bring to mind a warning I once heard: No matter how good looking she is, someone somewhere is sick of her sh!t. If that woman has to move by her self, she must have really burned a whole lot of bridges.

One thing that makes English movies and television so fine is that English show folk, although even more lefty than ours, are smart enough to rapidly and skillfully adapt so many pieces of basically conservative literature that have important ideas, interesting stories or other story-telling values.

The great example of this is the works of Evelyn Waugh. His religion and politics repelled the English artistic community. But English film-makers could not keep their hands away his novels, turning almost all of them into very good productions, in many cases several times.

Of course, this might also be explained on the theory that, whatever their philosophical differences, British show folk are, like Waugh was, snobs about esthetics.

"damn, that guy sure is an all-arounder, what an accomplished young man."

He's not going to make millions of dollars next year being 'an all-arounder' and an 'accomplished young man.' He's going to get paid to do one thing very well. Play basketball. He managed to graduate in a very insignificant supplementary sidelight to his career, in three years. Can you say that?

Is this true? Dina and Michael don't strike me as blue bloods but I'm not sure there is anything to indicate that they are white trash. After all, how many people who face insider trading charges are white trash?

Speaking of bashing Jews, did anyone see the overbearing Steve Roberts (with his admittedly charming wife Cokie) brow-beating a group of religious leaders last Sunday on ABC's This Week with Christiane Amanpour? The topic was civility in discourse and apparently Steve felt empowered to insult and lecture everone that wasn't for burdening future generations with debt or allowing illegal aliens to become full citizens at their personal discretion.

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